The Knotted Strings (signed & dated)

Page, Jake

ISBN 10: 0345387821 / ISBN 13: 9780345387820

Published by Ballantine Books, New York, 1995

About this Item

1st edition hardcover in fine condition in fine dust jacket - signed & dated March 12, 1995 by the author on the title page - Mo Bowdrie, blind sculptor novel set in New Mexico - fine, as new copy.

Seller Inventory # msh9114

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Knotted Strings (signed & dated)
• Publisher: Ballantine Books, New York
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345387821
• ISBN 13: 9780345387820
• Binding: hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • signed mystery o-z

About this title

Synopsis

Attending a lavish Hollywood costume epic that is being filmed in Santa Fe, Mo Bowdre, a blind sculptor and amateur sleuth, is on the set of a shoot when a brutal murder takes place. By the author of The Stolen Gods. Tour.

Reviews

Native American tradition, New Mexico's terra-cotta landscape and a missing "Lincoln cane" that might have bludgeoned someone to death bring to mind Tony Hillerman's Sacred Clowns. While sharing these ingredients with that 1993 novel, Page's third Mo Bowdre mystery (after The Deadly Canyon) is angrier and more hip as it takes wicked shots at the movie business, the media, crass Eastern tourists and venal lawyers. In Santa Fe, Sweetwater Pictures is shooting a film about the Pueblo Rebellion of 1680, when a small band of Indians chased out cruel Spanish rulers. But the movie seems sabotaged: an actor is murdered, the director's car is bombed, Indian "oppositionists" demonstrate and a "witching" occurs at Santo Esteban Pueblo. Burly, blind Santa Fe sculptor Mo Bowdre joins forces with a police sergeant and a freewheeling FBI agent to effect justice. Page includes some lovely scenes?the hilltop funeral of an old pueblo leader, for example?in his suspenseful plot, but the tale's impact is diminished as he overuses the cinematic technique of cutting away from a scene just as something important is about to happen. Author tour.
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The author of The Deadly Canyon (LJ 1/94) also places a movie shoot at the center of his new effort. When murder of the leading man halts filming on Indian land in New Mexico, blind sculptor Mo Bowdre, whose girlfriend plays an extra in the movie, suspects more than simple Indian animosity.
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